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Judas is a Gnostic text. The Gnostics were a metaphysical cult of early Christianity. The text came way after the closing of the inspired canonical books of the New Testament. Here's what early Christian, Iranaeus, says about it in his "Refutation of All Heresies":
"They declare that Judas the traitor was thoroughly acquainted with these things, and that he alone, knowing the truth as no others did, accomplished the mystery of the betrayal; by him all things, both earthly and heavenly, were thus thrown into confusion. They produce a fictitious history of this kind, which they style the Gospel of Judas."
There is a reason that the ante-Nicene church fathers rejected heretical rubbish like Judas. It is counterfeit and doesn't stand under the scrutiny of Textual Criticism.